Demand for anti-drone defense systems grew 5 times in a year

Demand for anti-drone defense systems grew 3 times from January to March 2023, and 5 times year-on-year. This follows from the data of the marketplace of security systems “Tekhklyuchi.rf” and the statistics of search queries “Yandex.Wordstat”. If earlier such systems were purchased only by industrial companies and government organizations, then from the beginning of 2023, private individuals, including representatives of dacha cooperatives and cottage villages, have become buyers, said Tigran Israelyan, CEO of Techklyuchi.rf. The number of search queries for the keywords “UAV protection” in March 2023 increased 5 times compared to March 2022 from 229 to 1178 queries per month, follows from the data of the Yandex.Wordstat service.

The head of one of the largest providers of anti-drone solutions, Kaspersky Antidrone, Vladimir Turov, confirmed the trend and added that from January to April 2023, the company received the same number of requests for the purchase of PACs (software and hardware systems) as in the whole of 2022, without citing absolute indicators. And in 2022, the number of requests for the company’s anti-drone solutions increased 3.5 times compared to 2021, Turov said. The main target audience of the company is critical infrastructure and industry, and the company also receives requests from the organizers of public events, he added.